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The Trump administration has lent some support to the old adage that even a busted watch will tell the time correctly twice a day, actually appointing someone eminently qualified to a high-ranking position in the U.S. Department of Education.

Last Sunday, a crowd of 70 attended “What’s Up at College: How Anti-Semitism is Affecting College Life,” a panel discussion at Congregation Shirat Hayam. The event was sponsored by the nonprofit Campus Anti-Semitism Task Force of the North Shore in order to raise awareness among area high school teenagers in light of increased anti-Semitism on college campuses across the country.

Kenneth L. Marcus, an attorney who has championed the use of the 1964 federal civil rights act to investigate allegations of antisemitism on campus, has been appointed assistant secretary for civil rights in the Department of Education.

The man President Trump has tapped for the critical job of chief of civil rights in the Education Department is the president of a Jewish center for human rights who has been critical of campus supporters of a Palestinian-led campaign to divest from Israel and who previously served in the George W. Bush administration.

The head of a prominent Jewish human rights group has been chosen for the top civil rights post at the US Department of Education, the White House announced on Thursday.

Rabbi Michael Ragozin was particularly fired up during his 2016 Kol Nidre sermon at Congregation Shirat Hayam. The topic was anti-Semitism on college campuses, an issue he said “Gets me in the kishkes.

For at least the fourth time, a student at Stoughton High School has used a hate-related symbol in school.

The Louis D. Brandeis Center, a Jewish rights nonprofit organization, is continuing its push for Stoughton school administrators to rescind the punishment of three teachers who discussed an anti-Semitic incident at the high school with their students and colleagues last fall.

A prominent Jewish human rights group doubled down on its criticism of a Massachusetts school district that disciplined a teacher for discussing antisemitism, following objections from the district’s superintendent.

A group that advocates for the civil and human rights for Jewish issues and members of the faith is calling on the Stoughton Public Schools to not issue further punishment to a teacher disciplined or talking about an incident involving a swastika.